FOLLOWING two years of pandemic-induced global disruptions, Singapore's Changi Airport is now seeing a surge in airfreight with rising demand fuelled by supply chain disruptions and an online shopping boom.
Latest statistics from Changi Airport Group (CAG) show that total airfreight throughput from January to November in 2021 hit 1.76 million tonnes - 96 per cent of the 1.84 million tonnes reached over the same period in pre-pandemic 2019.
It was also a 26 per cent jump from the 1.4 million tonnes moved from January to November 2020, when throughput for the full year fell to 1.54 million tonnes - from 2.01 million tonnes in 2019 - at the height of pandemic restrictions and lockdowns worldwide, reports The Straits Times.
CAG noted that throughput for September and October last year surpassed 2019 benchmarks, with air imports and exports from January to November last year exceeding pre-pandemic levels by 8 per cent.
Air imports, exports and transshipments are the primary components of air cargo movements.
As at the first week of December 2021, Changi Airport was registering some 1,000 weekly scheduled and charter cargo flights - including passenger aircraft converted to carry cargo in their holds - connecting the hub to more than 70 cities.
This is a more than threefold increase compared with December 2019.
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Latest statistics from Changi Airport Group (CAG) show that total airfreight throughput from January to November in 2021 hit 1.76 million tonnes - 96 per cent of the 1.84 million tonnes reached over the same period in pre-pandemic 2019.
It was also a 26 per cent jump from the 1.4 million tonnes moved from January to November 2020, when throughput for the full year fell to 1.54 million tonnes - from 2.01 million tonnes in 2019 - at the height of pandemic restrictions and lockdowns worldwide, reports The Straits Times.
CAG noted that throughput for September and October last year surpassed 2019 benchmarks, with air imports and exports from January to November last year exceeding pre-pandemic levels by 8 per cent.
Air imports, exports and transshipments are the primary components of air cargo movements.
As at the first week of December 2021, Changi Airport was registering some 1,000 weekly scheduled and charter cargo flights - including passenger aircraft converted to carry cargo in their holds - connecting the hub to more than 70 cities.
This is a more than threefold increase compared with December 2019.
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